Seems like the trillion or so we spent on "Intelligence" gathering from the sixties to the nineties without having a clue the Soviet Union was ready to collapse would have taught people a lesson. But, no, just claim they never really collapsed, blah, blah, blah.
Steele was in good with every anti-Putin oligarch and stayed in touch with the ones who fled prosecution or were deported. The Russian BS was the typical democrat approach, accuse someone else of doing what you yourself were doing and paint all parties involved as horrible for daring to do such a thing.
The Steele stuff is at least 50% successful for the democrats. Painting Russia as now being no different than when it was under the thumb of Communists and Putin as being just like Stalin is a major win for them even if they can't go the distance and convince anyone that Trump was "colluding" with evil Russia.
Democrats will portray Russia being the most horrible nation on earth right up until they win another Presidential election. At that time, they'll applaud how whoever is in charge in Russia at the time has "seen the light" and how great US/Russia relations can become.
They've run that stupid scam a dozen times since the fifties either when the White House changed hands or when a President appointed a Secretary of State the democrat fascist scum couldn't control and didn't agree with.
But, like a cat that keeps chasing the dot a laser pointer makes no matter how many time the cat runs full speed into a wall, some people fall for the same scam, presented in the exact same terms, with all the same lies being promoted, no matter how many times they end up getting it in the butt after democrats sway them and their fellow idiots with scare quotes and BS.
So, who has WMDs this week?
What evil viper is hiding in a cave in Afghanistan this week?
Which horrible Republican said something nasty about queers this week?
Which nation run by and populated mostly by White Christians should have a dose of US hate this week?
Maybe someone who is still in their teens or early twenties hasn't caught on yet, but I've been around long enough to recognize two thirds of what passes for "news" and "insightful commentary" for what it is; the Same Old Sh?t on a different shingle.
Nice rant...never understood why people fall for the same bs about Russia over and over again, but it works more often than not.